[Xen-devel] [PATCH][VT] Enable multi-word DMA mode 2 for the PIIX3 chipset

[Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>]

Enable multi-word DMA mode 2 for the PIIX3 chipset

Without this patch, Linux PIIX3 driver would see ultra DMA and get confused
and ended up disabling DMA.

With the patch, we're able to see 3x increase in disk read throughput.

Signed-off-by: Winston Wang <winston.l.wang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arun Sharma <arun.sharma@xxxxxxxxx>

diff -r 29aab159846c -r b5196e075602 tools/ioemu/hw/ide.c
--- a/tools/ioemu/hw/ide.c      Mon Aug 15 18:32:29 2005
+++ b/tools/ioemu/hw/ide.c      Mon Aug 15 20:28:07 2005
@@ -430,6 +430,7 @@
         put_le16(p + 59, 0x100 | s->mult_sectors);
     put_le16(p + 60, s->nb_sectors);
     put_le16(p + 61, s->nb_sectors >> 16);
+    put_le16(p + 63, 0x07);
     put_le16(p + 80, (1 << 1) | (1 << 2));
     put_le16(p + 82, (1 << 14));
     put_le16(p + 83, (1 << 14));
@@ -460,7 +461,7 @@
     put_le16(p + 48, 1); /* dword I/O (XXX: should not be set on CDROM) */
     put_le16(p + 49, 1 << 9); /* LBA supported, no DMA */
     put_le16(p + 53, 3); /* words 64-70, 54-58 valid */
-    put_le16(p + 63, 0x103); /* DMA modes XXX: may be incorrect */
+    put_le16(p + 63, 0x07); /* Multi-word DMA mode 2 */ 
     put_le16(p + 64, 1); /* PIO modes */
     put_le16(p + 65, 0xb4); /* minimum DMA multiword tx cycle time */
     put_le16(p + 66, 0xb4); /* recommended DMA multiword tx cycle time */

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